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webbing (between the toes or fingers of an animal)
The membrane of skin stretched between the toes or fingers of water animals such as frogs, ducks, and otters, used to push against the water when swimming.
カエルには水かきがある。
Frogs have webbed feet.
アヒルは水かきで水をかいて泳ぐ。
Ducks swim by paddling the water with their webbed feet.
足の指の間にある水かきのおかげで、速く泳ぐことができる。
Thanks to the webbing between their toes, they can swim quickly.
Literally "water paddle," from 水 (water) + かき (paddling, from 掻く). The skin membrane between the digits of aquatic animals. The word for the diving equipment for humans is normally フィン or 足ひれ, not 水かき.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 水かきがある: to have webbed feet
- 水かきのついた足: webbed feet
- 指の間の水かき: the webbing between the digits